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IBM Systems Software

Unlocking the potential of IT to create smarter systems

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Table of Contents

Introduction to IBM Systems Software 3

Platform Management and Energy 4Overview 5

IBM Systems Director 6

IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager 7

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 8

Availability 9Overview 10

IBM XIV Storage System 11

IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) 12

IBM High-Performance Computing Open Source Software Stack 13

IBM PowerHA 14

IBM ProtecTIER 15

Virtualization 16Overview 17

IBM Systems Director VMControl 18

IBM PowerVM 19

IBM Systems Director Network Control 20

IBM z/VM 21

IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager 22

IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 23

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IBM Systems Software IBM Systems Software: Realizing the value of smarter systems

In today’s information-driven economy, three key business challenges are coming to the forefront: service improvement, cost reduction and the management of risk. With organizations becoming more interconnected and dependent on real-time value and intelligence derived from new ways to use data, the importance of robust IT systems cannot be underestimated. But technology alone cannot effectively address these business imperatives. To meet these new demands, it is necessary to closely align IT with the business and make it a core part of the organization’s strategy.

To achieve this important goal, a holistic approach to IT is needed; one that incorporates both the technology itself and the way in which it is employed. Systems need to be smarter –not just faster or less costly, but optimized for the needs and workloads of today’s business. IT should be thought of in terms of how it can enable the organization to become more agile and competitive, by helping turn information into insight, deliver services better and faster, enable collaboration, drive efficiency and manage risk.

Smarter systems are created by combining technology with capable, streamlined and efficient systems management that makes extensive use of virtualization and automation, enabling organizations to gain greater visibility and control of the infra-structure. That’s the purpose of IBM Systems Software and its suite of solutions built to address critical IT needs including platform and energy management, virtualization and availability.

IBM Systems Software closely aligns IT management solutions with the IBM technology portfolio, allowing administrators to make more effective use of the advanced features present in IBM

hardware and operating systems. The result is greater business value from IT through the creation of a more capable infrastruc-ture – one that is better able to meet the challenges of today’s business environment.

A new way of looking at ITFor IT managers, this concept of technology and its role represents a new world view, one that focuses on optimizing workloads and delivering IT services rather than performing low-level management tasks. IBM Systems Software is a critical enabler of this approach, providing efficient, consolidated man-agement of physical and virtual assets across the infrastructure. IBM Systems Software solutions combine with and complement higher-level management platforms to provide comprehensive, integrated service management that covers the full spectrum of value creation: from detailed platform management, to large-scale resource optimization and alignment of IT with business across the enterprise.

By centralizing, streamlining and automating system level management tasks such as configuration and provisioning, IBM Systems Software solutions can dramatically reduce cost and risk while improving service delivery, in a way not possible with conventional approaches to IT management. Administrators need not spend days or weeks bringing new resources online to respond to an outage or meet a new business need; with automated processes and virtualized technologies that are closely aligned and integrated with business priorities, needs can be met immediately and without disruption.

The ability to unlock the potential of technology is what IBM Systems Software offers. It represents a vital link between IT and the business–one that enables optimized business value creation, more efficiently and effectively.

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Platform Management and Energy overview

To achieve the ultimate goal of increased competitiveness that smarter systems can provide, it is necessary to move beyond the detailed management of systems – servers, storage and networks – to the optimization of workloads and the delivery of high-value IT services in new ways.

This is a different strategy for managers, one that is more aligned with the “business of business” and less focused on the “busi-ness of IT.” To get there, IT administrators need a way to bridge the gap between individual systems management and overall infrastructure management provided by existing high-level man-agement solutions.

Streamlined, automated systems management directly addresses key business concerns related to IT, such as the ability to more rapidly deploy services in response to business needs, and the control of costs associated with capital expen- diture and ongoing management. Leveraging advanced IBM technology and combining it with centralized systems manage-ment even allows managers to reduce the cost of energy by actively managing power consumption in the data center.

IT administrators are routinely faced with siloed systems and environments that must be managed in isolation using dedi-cated, often proprietary solutions. The result is a disconnected proliferation of management tools, interfaces, processes and procedures that make the overall management task complex, cumbersome and time-consuming. Putting all the requisite pieces in place becomes an exercise in juggling multiple, sometimes conflicting priorities.

IBM System Software solutions for platform and energy manage-ment help IT administrators overcome this challenge, by bringing numerous functions and capabilities together to enable the comprehensive management of IT resources from a single, uni-fied, simple point of control. Servers, storage and networks can all be viewed and managed from “a single pane of glass.” This dramatically reduces costs and saves time, while increasing effectiveness and speed of execution – which leads directly to improved business responsiveness.

In addition, centralized management improves service levels by automating and streamlining management tasks. Provision-ing and configuration of virtualized server, storage and network resources is greatly simplified, enabling the rapid deployment of new applications and workloads. What once might have taken days or even weeks can now be accomplished in minutes.

The key to effective management is the ability to look across platforms and operating systems, without sacrificing the ability to drill down to the individual device level and perform detailed management tasks. IBM System Software solutions improve the ability to do this by embracing open industry standards and offering a way to integrate into heterogeneous data center environments.

This unified view of platform management will change the way IT administrators add value to the organization, by making it possible for them to optimize workloads instead of spending their time managing hardware, and enabling better, faster, more flexible IT service delivery instead of devoting resources to configuration and provisioning.

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IBM Systems Director

Helps save 34 to 42 percent in administrative costs1 with management from a single pane of glass

Why it mattersTruly nimble IT can only be achieved by first integrating the sys-tems management task: providing a single console that spans the infrastructure to manage all IT resources, including physical assets, virtualized environments, storage and the network. It is through this level of integration that workloads can be efficiently optimized, flexibility achieved and new kinds of service delivery made to deliver business value.

The underlying challenge of platform management is complex-ity. Diverse IT environments have typically required a variety of separate tools to deal with countless discrete tasks, making the alignment and synchronization of IT resources difficult, and slow-ing problem resolution.

The key value of IBM Systems Director is its ability to work in diverse IT environments, supporting multiple platforms and operating systems, thanks to its basis in open standards. This critically important capability is what allows businesses to derive the real benefits of centralized management, because it dramati-cally reduces the number of management tools and interfaces, simplifying the way in which IT administrators perform their tasks.

What it isIBM Systems Director provides a core, comprehensive, unified systems management platform that serves as the primary tool in the IT administrator’s arsenal. It is the single, central point of control and monitoring for all system resources, across the entire infrastructure. It provides tools for discovery, inventory, status, configuration, system health, resource monitoring, system updates, event notification and management automation. It also allows administrators to tailor and optimize workloads by allocating specific resources to specific tasks, delivering greater performance and improving service.

Additional functionality is provided using an open plug-in architecture making it easier for administrators to add capabili-ties while seamlessly integrating them with the Systems Director interface. Systems Director is available separately as a standalone product or packaged in Express, Standard and Enterprise editions, with increasing levels of capability to serve the spectrum of IT management needs. All include the core Systems Director application, with higher editions incorporating additional plug-ins. The plug-ins are also available separately, making future upgrades easy. All Systems Director Editions run on IBM Power Systems,™ while the Express Edition also supports IBM System x.®

The Express Edition provides a clear view of the relationships and status of IT components, giving the ability to reduce costs and improve availability by helping to identify and fix issues more quickly. The Standard Edition builds on these capabilities with monitoring and management of physical and virtual servers, storage, networks and energy usage, helping to simplify virtu-alization and energy management across the data center. The Enterprise Edition further enhances flexibility and workload optimization with tools that help manage pools of virtualized Power Systems servers as a single logical entity.

Key takeaways• Offerssavingsof34to42percentinadministrativecostswhen

compared with unmanaged environments1

• Simplifiesmanagementtasksbyprovidingcross-platformmonitoring, configuration and reporting tools

• Reducescostandincreasesefficiencybystreamlining management through a single, unified interface

• Increasesservicelevelsbyimprovingresponsivenessand effectiveness of management

• Speedsdeploymentbyaligningmanagementtasks

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IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager

Helps reduce data center power costs by 15 to 50 percent

Why it mattersA significant cost driver in today’s data centers is the use of power. Server sprawl and poor utilization lead to power con-sumption that is far higher than it needs to be. For example, aserverrunningat20percentofcapacityusesjustasmuchelectricity and requires just as much cooling as one running at 80 percent.

With the cost of IT taking on a higher profile in today’s eco-nomic environment and increasing awareness of environmental concerns, the effective management of energy has become more important than ever. Sound energy management takes a complete understanding of what’s actually going on in the data center… from power consumption to temperature, right down to the individual device level.

The potential savings are considerable. For example, the largest commercial data center in the world, operated by IBM, covers more than eight million square feet. Through active energy management, the company is expected to achieve a projected savings of 5 billion kWh per year – an order of magnitude more than any other IT company. And IBM data center energy assessments have confirmed that clients can save from 15 to 50 percent on energy through active management, with payback in as little as two years.

What it is IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager is a plug-in that integrates seamlessly with IBM Systems Director. It is available pre-packaged with IBM Systems Director Standard and Enterprise Editions.

It provides discovery, management and optimization of energy usage, monitoring energy consumption and operating tempera-ture of individual devices while offering pertinent metrics for power distribution units and UPS devices.

Active Energy Manager gives you the ability to not only exercise central control of this power-saving technology for your entire data center, but the intelligence you need to use it to its best advantage. It lets you view historical trend data so you can spot how much energy is being used by each device and when. With that information you can associate power consumption with specific servers and workloads, so you know when it’s appropriate to curtail use.

By leveraging features built into IBM hardware, Active Energy Manager can dynamically reduce energy consumption by limit-ing the power a system is allowed to consume. As the load ap-proaches a limit you set, the system will reduce its clock speed and voltage of the processors to stay below the cap. The same features can also be used to save energy across the board, by putting the systems into a low-power mode when the server’s full performance is not needed.

Key takeaways• Helpsreducedatacenterpowercostsby15to50percent

through active energy management technologies such as power consumption capping

• Providesreal-timeinformationonenergyusage,giving the insight needed to effectively reduce power consumption

• LeveragesIBMhardwaretechnologytoactivelymanage energy use by individual devices

• IntegratesseamlesslywithIBMSystemsDirector to provide centralized management

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IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

Reduces service-level response times by up to 90 percent while identifying resource-constrained applications

Why it mattersThe virtualization of storage resources enables integrated systems management and the optimization of workloads, helping businesses reach their goal of delivering the right IT services at the right time to the right users, quickly and efficiently. The use of Storage Area Networks (SANs) is a highly effective means of storage virtualization, but alone it does not optimize the perfor-mance and utilization of storage resources.

Many SANs suffer from a high degree of management complex-ity, with hosts and storage devices from numerous vendors, multiple operating systems, diverse file systems and different access methods all being used at the same time. Centralized management that is able to look across systems and manage all of them in a unified manner is key to the effective use of SANs as the basis for a virtualized storage infrastructure – one of the foundations of smarter systems.

What it isIBM Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center provides management capabilities for diverse SANs that incorporate products from multiple vendors. These capabilities help improve service levels by automating file system capacity provisioning and device configuration, which speeds deployment. In addition, Productivity Center enhances efficiency by helping to manage capacity utilization, file systems and databases.

Automatic discovery of resources and topology further simplifies management, yielding a comprehensive view of the entire storage infrastructure. Transparency is enhanced through real-time performance monitoring, analytics and alerting capa-bilities that notify administrators of potential bottlenecks and help them understand usage and performance trends. Consequently,

administrators can plan for and execute new storage strategies before problems arise. Managers can also use this information to proactively manage the performance of the SAN, through the enforcement of service levels.

NewtechnologyfromIBMResearchprovidesadiscrete,dedi-cated (out-of-band) storage optimization engine to efficiently optimize virtualized storage environments. Working in harmony with SAN Volume Controller, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center can help quickly identify resource-constrained applications andreduceservice-levelresponsetimesbyanaverageof48to90 percent.2

Architected to ANSI SAN standards, Tivoli Storage Productivity Center helps companies to massively scale their storage networks using best-of-breed products to meet increasing busi-ness requirements. SAN fabrics may also be divided into zones for greater control by using the product’s built-in tools.

Key takeaways• Helpsreduceservice-levelresponsetimesbyanaverageof48to90percent

• Boostsworkloadoptimizationthroughenhanced,proactivemanagement of storage area networks

• Reducescostandincreasesmanagementeffectivenesswithcross-platform capabilities

• Improvesservicebysimplifyingconfigurationandprovisioning,enabling resources to be brought into service more quickly

• ReducesriskbyalertingITadministratorstoresource- constrained applications and potential storage bottlenecks before they become a problem

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A global economy that is highly interconnected and interdepen-dent is incredibly productive and responsive, but at the same time far more sensitive to service interruptions than it once was. Even brief periods of downtime can have a dramatic impact. For example,in2003Amazon.comsufferedaserviceinterruptionthat lasted only an hour… yet by mid-afternoon that day, inves-tors were so shaken that its stock price had dipped by over four percent. From the point of view of users and customers, the source of the outage is irrelevant. What matters is that the service is unavailable. The gold standard is continuous, uninterrupted service, no matter what.

Onewayofmaintaininghighavailabilityistorelyonrobust,redundant systems – a focused, technology-intensive approach that’s served mainframe users well for many years. But on a smarter planet, the emphasis is on doing more with available resources, using smarter systems to add flexibility and agility. Today, we need to find ways to seamlessly shift workloads so that service continues with little or no disruption – an adaptive ap-proach that relies on the intelligent use of technology along with systems management to build in resiliency that goes beyond the data center.

This contrasts with the way many systems are managed today. Processing power is often re-allocated manually, either through a non-automated management system or by physically moving cables, servers, cards and the like. Such a labor-intensive approach can impact service availability and cost while increas-ing the risk of an outage through human error.

As the number of systems and connections between them increases, so do the number of potential points of failure. But, it’s more than just sheer scale. The increasing interdependence between systems means that complexity also skyrockets, making effective, timely management across the enterprise and beyond more critical. This is particularly true given the heterogeneous nature of today’s computing landscape, with standalone systems, public and private clouds, and virtualized infrastruc-tures of all kinds coexisting and depending on one another to deliver services.

Maintaining the highest levels of availability requires not only highly reliable hardware, but robust, fault-tolerant network, system, application and process architectures, as well as auto-mated management that can react immediately and find a way to circumvent any outage, planned or unplanned. That’s the IBM smarter systems approach, and it means resiliency, the key to maintaining business continuity.

IBM Systems Software offerings for high availability leverage our hardware and software innovations to deliver both host-based replication and storage server-based replication technologies. For example, combining the IBM System Storage® DS8000®withIBMPowerHATM SystemMirror Enterprise Edition yieldsoneofthemostrobustenterprisewideormulti-siteHA/DRsolutions available. It’s this tight, end-to-end integration with IBM systems and software that delivers greater business value, in the form of highly optimized solutions that make the most of your investment in IT.

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IBM Systems Software IBM XIV Storage System

Lowers storage power, cooling and operating costs by up to 70 percent while simplifying management

Why it mattersToday’s services are more data-dependent than ever before. The shrinking cost of storage, combined with the ubiquity of devices and processes that capture data, has allowed developers to leverage information in entirely new ways to create new business value and new intelligence based on sophisticated analytics and the ready availability of information.

For this new breed of applications to work, however, data must be continuously available from systems with rapid access and retrieval. At the same time, these systems need to be easy and inexpensive to upgrade and scale to keep up with the rapid pace of storage technology development.

What it isThe IBM XIV® Storage System is a high-end, next-generation, standalone open storage system based on a grid architecture, capable of housing up to 180 disks, each with a capacity of one terabyte. Its components are standard units based on Intel® technology and Linux,® connected in an any-to-any manner to provide extreme redundancy of all key components, ease of scalability and non-disruptive component replacement.

Internal connectivity is made via massively parallel Gigabit Ether-net connections, which helps deliver outstanding throughput. Up to24FibreChannelportsareprovided,supportingtransferratesofupto4Gbps.

Reliabilityandavailabilityarefurtherenhancedthrough partition mirroring and self-healing hardware features that enable rapid rebuild times. The system has the ability to create as many as 16,000 differential snapshots, with near-zero perfor-mance overhead.

The XIV Storage System is fully virtualized, with self-management built in. It automatically provisions and distributes storage loads, taking into account changes in configuration, capacity and application demand.

Utilization is continuously optimized, thanks to the ability of the system to treat all installed storage devices as a single, dynami-cally managed virtual pool of storage. The built-in automated management software continuously reclaims unused space and can create logical storage volumes that are larger than any one installed storage device.

Cost is minimized in several ways. The use of economical, standard storage devices reduces hardware cost and speeds time-to-value, making it economically feasible to upgrade more often to take advantage of new technology. Greater utilization also makes the most of existing investments, helping to defer upgrade expenses. And, the high degree of automated management reduces IT staff involvement in configuration and provisioning.

Key takeaways• Helpsreducetier1storagepower,coolingandoperating

costs by up to 70 percent in open environments• Supportsbusinessflexibilitybycreatingasingle,virtual

storage pool in a consolidated hardware platform• Raisesthelevelsofavailabilitywithamassivelyredundant,

high-density storage system that reduces complexity • Lowerscostandprovidesinvestmentprotectionthroughan

open design using standard components• Optimizesworkloadsandsimplifiesmanagementtodrive

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IBM Systems Software IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS)

High-performance storage ideal for cloud computing – up to 14.4 petabytes in a single, easily managed system

Why it mattersThe world today is awash in information. Billions of sensors embedded in everything from medical devices to cell phones are producing ceaseless streams of it. And businesses everywhere are finding new ways to put it to work.

The volume of data stored in today’s systems is beyond comprehension and it’s growing exponentially. A number of factors lie behind the information explosion: the rise of massive, globally integrated value chains, new applications that lever-age vast quantities of data to generate business value, and new network-centric delivery models such as cloud computing to name a few. The result is a new need for storage systems of unprecedented scope – in the multi-petabyte range.

Supporting large enterprise means that these extended, global systems must meet the most rigorous standards of resiliency and availability, while at the same time delivering high levels of performance under extreme loads. Equally important is the need to manage large numbers of file servers and massive amounts of data. Finding ways to reliably store data on a global scale and work with it efficiently through smarter systems is vital.

What it isTheIBMScaleOutNetworkAttachedStorage(SONAS) solution is designed for the largest storage infrastructure requirements, in support of global enterprises. Incorporating the flagship IBM General Parallel File System (GPFSTM) running on Linux,SONAShasthepotentialtodeliverupto14.4petabytes of storage without sacrificing ease of management or reliability.

It is designed to support millions to billions of active files in a singlenamespace.ThisiswhatdifferentiatesSONASfrom conventional NAS solutions. Its extreme scalability bypasses

the limitations of other NAS solutions by eliminating the need todeployseparatefilesystemsonseparateservers.SONASthereby does away with a daunting management challenge, making it easier to allocate resources and providing an ideal choice for cloud storage.

SONASenablesefficientunified,policy-basedautomateddatamanagement. This solution is optimized for high performance with high data volume. Data is stored in a very efficient format that makes extensive use of metadata and GPFS to speed scanning, search and retrieval.

SONASisbuiltfromthegrounduptosimplifythemanagementof the system itself and the information it contains. Centralized management, provisioning, control and automated information lifecycle management features are all standard. This allows organizations to devote fewer resources to storage management and more to running the business.

Key takeaways• Delivershigh-performancestorageidealforcloudcomputing,withupto14.4petabytesinasingle,easilymanagedsystem,with utilization rates of over 80 percent and the ability to scan one billion files in minutes

• Makesuseofproven,maturetechnologytohelpensure reliability and availability, thereby reducing risk and improving service levels

• Allowsbusinessestocreateasinglestoragenamespacethatcan handle millions to billions of active files, simplifying large-scale storage management

• Improvesservicewithadesignoptimizedforhigh performance with high data volume

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IBM Systems Software IBM High-Performance Computing Open Source Software Stack

Offers high availability and performance in a pre-integrated, open-source software stack

Why it mattersMany applications in today’s world involve highly specialized, often non-commercial workloads that entail intense computa-tion along with the management and manipulation of enormous amounts of data. The visualization of complex data sets gener-ated by the modeling of complex dynamic physical processes such as weather or traffic flow is a good example.

Many of the new applications that are arising out of the increas-ing availability of information and interconnections on a smarter planet rely on this kind of deep computing power to create business value and competitive advantage. This is computing on a new level, one that requires precise tuning and optimization of systems and intelligent solution design in addition to raw hard-ware performance. That brings the cost-effectiveness of these solutions into sharper focus; by their very nature, these are not “out of the box” systems, and obtaining value from them requires careful, expert implementation and management.

What it isWith the high agility and flexibility needed by today’s businesses, the kind of workload optimization demanded by high-performance computing needs to be accomplished as quickly and efficiently as possible. That is the purpose of the IBMHigh-PerformanceComputing(HPC)OpenSource Software Stack.

Prepackaged,pre-integratedandoptimizedbyIBM,theHPCStack leverages a combination of proven open-source software components, in conjunction with IBM tools and scripts, to help organizations build and deploy customized high-performance computingsolutionsonIBMhardwarerunningRedHatLinux.

By automating many of the steps involved in deploying and configuringthesecomponents,theHPCStackenables businesses to get a head start on a robust total solution, reducing time to value when rolling out these specialized systems.

TheHPCStackenhancesavailabilitybymakinguseofwell-established components that have proven themselves time and again. The stack is designed and thoroughly tested to reduce the risk of service interruption.

Drawing on IBM expertise in deep computing and workload optimization,theHPCStackenablesbusinessestoleveragethework of IBM industry and technical experts, while both reducing costs and protecting investments through the use of open source software.

Key takeaways• Delivershighavailabilityandperformanceviaapre-integrated,

open-source software stack• Enablesfasterandlesscostlydeploymentofhigh-

performance computing solutions • Offersrapidtimetovalue,therebyincreasingcompetitiveness

and agility• Providesmoreeffectiveworkloadoptimization• Improvesservicethroughtheuseofestablished,

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IBM Systems Software IBM PowerHA

Provides world-class high availability and disaster recovery – resiliency without downtime

Why it mattersA key driver in today’s business environment is cost containment. That means optimizing IT investments in many ways: from improving utilization and reducing physical and power footprints, to building IT infrastructures that feature greater ease and effec-tiveness of management.

The holistic approach to smarter systems practiced by IBM helps businesses achieve far greater value with less investment and effort, by addressing the whole issue of availability – not just one aspect. That means solutions that address both hardware and software. IBM also leverages its IT expertise and the leading features of its offerings to provide better overall capabilities than could be obtained through a mix of point solutions.

What it isIBMPowerHAisafamilyofsolutionsdesignedspecificallyforusersofIBMPOWER® systems running IBM AIX® or IBM i. These solutions provide a broad spectrum of availability-related capabilities, from system mirroring, to clustering, to nondisruptive database scalability, to backup and recovery.

SolutionsinthePowerHAfamilyinclude:• IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX and IBM PowerHA

System Mirror for i – Available in versions that address the needs of centralized data centers and dispersed IT infrastructures respectively, these clustering solutions provide reliable monitoring, failure detection and automated recovery of business application environments to backup resources.

• IBM PowerHA pureScaleTM– The underlying technology behindIBMDB2®pureScale,PowerHApureScalereducesthe risk and cost of business growth by providing unlimited database capacity as well as continuous availability and application transparency.

• IBM iCluster ®– Based on journal replication. iCluster is a logi-cal replication solution that is optimized for geographic disper-sion. iCluster allows you to replicate critical data and objects in from a primary system to one or more secondary systems to enable backup and disaster recovery.

• IBM Capacity BackUp for Power Systems – This high availabili-ty/disaster recovery offering provices a second, fully redundant system that automatically takes over in the event of an outage.

ThekeytothevalueofthePowerHAfamilyofsolutionsistheirintegrated, optimized design, which leverages the advanced featuresinherentinIBMoperatingsystemsandthePOWER platform to deliver enhanced availability.

Key takeaways• Deliversworld-class,easy-to-managehighavailabilityand

disaster recovery for businesses of any size, providing resiliency without downtime

• Providesmultiplehigh-availabilitysolutionsoptimized for IBM Power Systems, to help increase service levels

• Reducesriskthroughpre-integrated,platform-specificdesignthat speeds deployment and reduces cost

• LeveragestheleadingcapabilitiesofIBMhardwareand operating systems to improve availability and reliability

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IBM Systems Software IBM ProtecTIER

Delivers best-in-kind, enterprise-class data deduplication with proven data integrity

Why it mattersThe sheer volume of data stored in today’s systems, coming from myriad sensors, inputs and transactions, has created an information management challenge of unprecedented scope and scale. Despite the rapidly shrinking cost of storage, solutions for dealing with this vast ocean of data represent a considerable investment.

Compounding the storage management challenge is the need for efficient data handling. Finding information, working with it and archiving it needs to be done quickly and efficiently to prevent data storage from becoming a bottleneck that hurts business agility and flexibility. That means, in part, keeping the volume of data under control. To that end, it is essential to find ways to reduce file sizes and properly manage the information lifecycle to keep old or unwanted data out of the way.

What it isIBMProtecTIER® is a family of data deduplication solutions, rang-ing from enterprise-class clustered storage gateways supporting up to one petabyte of storage to easy-to-deploy, preconfigured appliancesolutions.AllProtecTIERsolutionsdramaticallyreducestorage requirements while protecting information and improving servicelevels,throughtheuseofpatentedHyperFactor® data deduplication technology.

ProtecTIERdeduplicationworksbyremovingredundantcopiesof the same information – for example, a file that was originally at-tached to thousands of e-mails – while still maintaining the integ-rity of linkages and relationships. This means that only the unique data necessary to the business is retained. In doing so, storage requirementscanbereducedbyafactorofupto25.

At the same time, full retrieval of the information remains not only possible, but seamless and simple. Backup and restore service levels are improved with a high-performance, inline deduplica-tion approach, delivering sustained tape processing throughput of 500 MB/s or more. This helps to ensure that processing windows are met and existing operations are not disrupted.

ProtecTIERincorporatessophisticatedvirtualreplication technologies to make backup more secure and reliable. Virtual tape cartridges can be automatically replicated to a remote location and restored in the same manner. This eliminates the need for the transport of physical cartridges, which can prevent lossduringtransportandmakerecoveryfarfaster.ProtecTIERalso enables the rapid and efficient cloning of virtual tape cartridges onto physical media for secure off-site storage.

Key takeaways• Deliversenterprise-classperformance,scalability,andproven

enterprise-level data integrity – one of the only data deduplica-tion solutions able to do so

• Enablestargetedstorageefficiencywithsolutionsrangingfromstandalone appliances to platform-specific gateways

• Reducesbackupandrecoverycoststhroughsophisticateddatadeduplicationtechnologythatprovidesupto25-fold data compression with no loss of data integrity

• Increasesefficiencyandservicelevelsthroughautomated,high-speed replication of data to remote sites

• Improvesresponsivenessbylesseningthetimeneededforbackup and replication through concurrent, inline processing.

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Traditional IT deployment models are not sustainable over the long term. The underlying reason is the explosion of data that the world is currently experiencing. The ever-more-instrumented, increasingly interconnected and interdependent global economy is creating new information and new demands for computing that were unthinkable only a few years ago, and the trend is accel-erating.By2012,totalIPtrafficwillamounttomorethanhalfazettabyte(or522exabytes).3 A zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes.

Businesses worldwide are facing a technology crunch that puts them at considerable risk due to the rising cost of IT. The number of systems in service is increasing dramatically, but utilization remains low. Enormous amounts of storage and computing power lies dormant, yet still needs to be maintained, powered, cooled, and housed. Adding a new server for a new workload only compounds the problem.

This pressing need has driven the rise and wide adoption of virtualization technologies. Long established in high-end mainframe-based data centers, virtualization has become more widespread and can now be found in entry-level and midrange x86-based servers, making it available to more businesses than ever before.

With the advanced virtualization capabilities found in today’s smarter systems, businesses can realize significant benefits. Utilization rates can be increased dramatically, leading to much lower total cost of ownership through hardware savings, as wellasreducedpowerandcoolingcosts.Rapidprovisioningand easy scalability also yields significant business flexibility and agility, enabling companies to bring new workloads into

production in hours or days instead of weeks or months. This combination of lower costs and greater capability offers tremendous business value.

True virtualization, however, is about more than just technology that consolidates resources to increase utilization. That’s just the start of the journey. Virtualization gives the ability to dynamically manage diverse workloads, which in turn enables workflow and process automation, leading to delivery optimization. At each stage of the journey, business agility increases. Virtualization, then, is a key input into the creation of true business flexibility, which lies at the heart of business value.

The ultimate goal is to make IT transparent and business- focused, bringing vitally needed services to users when and where needed, in a highly automated way. A business user who needs to ramp up the capacity of an e-commerce site to deal with a sudden surge in online shopping, for example, should be able to do so without getting into the details of provisioning or configuration. A task that, under traditional IT models, could have taken months of hardware procurement, deployment, planning and execution should be completed in minutes if IT is to serve the immediate business need.

That level of sophistication takes advanced software solutions that can help dynamically manage complete infrastructures from end to end, unlocking the potential of virtualization technology. And that is what IBM Systems Software provides: an essential set of capabilities that takes IT to the next level.

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IBM Systems Software IBM Systems Director VMControl

Industry-leading hypervisor support and management across x86 to mainframe

Why it mattersOften,virtualizationisthoughtofonlyinthecontextofasinglecomputing platform – for example, reducing the number of physical x86 servers in the data center. But in practice, IT environments tend to be diverse, with a variety of platforms and operating systems to contend with. Most virtualization solutions in the industry do not acknowledge this reality and are more narrowly focused.

The resulting silos of virtualization do yield tangible business benefits, but they still leave the IT department with the larger challengeofmanagingtheinfrastructureasawhole.Rather than fundamentally changing and optimizing the way IT services are delivered to create new business value, the task is merely shifted from managing individual systems to managing isolated virtualized environments using a range of tools that do not integrate seamlessly.

To radically transform the enterprise, virtualization needs to be viewed not as the end goal, but as a tool to better manage the entire IT infrastructure and, as a result, provide optimum service delivery. This holistic view of the desired result and an approach to achieve it is the key value of the IBM smarter systems approach and IBM Systems Software.

What it isIBM Systems Director VMControl is a plug-in option for the industry-leading IBM Systems Director management platform. It provides cross-platform, cross-hypervisor visibility and control of the virtualized environments, all from a single user interface. This critically important capability, unmatched in the industry, reduces complexity and improves administrator productivity.

VMControl supports IBM PowerVM,TM z/VM,® VMware, Microsoft® Xen and KVM server virtualization technologies on IBM Power Systems, IBM System z,® IBM System x or IBM BladeCenter® hardware, providing the ability to manage a variety of environ-ments with a single, consistent, automated solution. This stands in stark contrast to products that force administrators to manage each environment separately.

VMControl is offered in three different editions with increasing levels of capability. This allows businesses to select the optimal level of VMControl functionality (Express, Standard or Enterprise) for immediate needs and to seamlessly scale up as it evolves. All editions provide the ability to visualize, create, manage and relocate virtual machines. The Standard edition adds control via time-saving image management capabilities, while the Enterprise edition delivers automation based on virtual systems to provide true enterprisewide virtualization and infrastructure optimization.

Key takeaways• Offersbroadcross-platform,cross-hypervisorandcross-

virtualization technology management, helping to eliminate isolated silos of virtualization

• Bringstogetherserver,storageandnetworkingresourcestosimplify virtualization management, provides faster time-to-value and greater business agility

• Newworkloadscanbedeployedinminutesinsteadofweeks4

• Serveradministrationcostscanbereducedupto34percentwhile delivering repeatable accuracy4

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IBM Systems Software IBM PowerVM

Supports up to 1,000 virtual machines on a single physical server

Why it mattersThe principal benefits of virtualization are: • Lowercostthroughserversprawlreductionand

greater utilization• Theabilitytorespondtobusinessneedsfasterthrough

dynamic resource allocation• Optimizedworkloadmanagement• Improvedservicelevelsthroughinfrastructuresimplification

To get there, one must start with the right platform and the right virtualization software. For businesses worldwide, that platform is IBM Power Systems and the software is IBM PowerVM.

With the current drive towards cloud computing as an increasingly important delivery model, performance is critical. IBM Power Systems deliver higher levels of performance than x86 systems, yet with the Lx86 feature of PowerVM, it is still possible to run x86 applications in a virtual server.

PowerVM stands out because it is designed from the ground up to leverage the reliability, availability and scalability features of industry-leading IBM Power Systems servers. It supports key operating systems, including IBM AIX, IBM i, and Linux (both SUSEandRedHat).Theresultisindustrial-strengthvirtualizationthat is the first step to optimized service delivery.

What it isIBM PowerVM provides a secure, stable and sophisticated virtualization environment for IBM Power Systems. With PowerVM, a single physical server can be divided into multiple virtual servers as little as 1/10 of a processor or up to 64processors,eachrunningitsownapplicationworkloads and its own operating system while sharing resources includ- ingprocessors,memoryandI/O.

PowerVMunleashesthetruepotentialofthenewIBMPOWER7TM processor, taking scalability to a new level. With PowerVM, high-endPOWER7-basedsystemscansupportupto1,000 logicalpartitions(LPARs)onasingleserver.PowerVMalso allows far more efficient utilization through dynamic, nondisruptive resource sharing that automatically allocates processor resources, borrowing processing power from idle LPARstohandlehightransactionvolumesinotherpartitions.

PowerVM runs on all Power Systems, from blades to the top of the line. Businesses can deploy the most appropriate mix of physical servers for their needs, making the infrastructure more cost-effective. Three separate editions – Express, Standard and Enterprise – provide increasing levels of capability to meet different business requirements. The Express Edition supports threeLPARsperserver,whiletheStandardandEnterprise Editionscansupport10LPARsperprocessorcore.The Enterprise Edition also provides active memory sharing and live partition mobility to increase performance and availability by allowing workloads to be moved, without disruption, while they are running.

Key takeaways• Allowslivepartitionstobemoved,dynamicallyallocating

resources to maximize utilization without impacting workloads• Reducescostbyincreasingutilizationofphysicalhardware,

while enhancing business agility and flexibility through dynamic, optimized workload management

• Providesavitalfirststeponthepathtoafullyvirtualized, automated IT infrastructure that leads to better service delivery

• LeveragesIBMhardwareandsoftwaretechnologytoprovideincreased performance and capability

• SimplifiesandstreamlinesmanagementthroughsupportforallPower Systems and key operating systems

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IBM Systems Software IBM Systems Director Network Control

Simplifies heterogeneous network device management to reduce costs

Why it mattersWhile it is essential to consolidate servers in order to realize the benefits of virtualization, stopping there falls short of produc-ing the greatest business benefit. To attain the highest levels of business agility and flexibility through optimized service delivery, the entire infrastructure needs to be virtualized, managed and automated. That includes storage and network assets as well.

But even this step may not be enough. The key to unlocking the value of virtualization is comprehensive management of all virtualized assets in the infrastructure, so that it can be treated as a transparent, unified, agile, IT system. This requires a management platform capable of consolidating management functions into a consistent, centralized interface. That’s what IBM Systems Director Network Control provides.

What it isIBM Systems Director Network Control is a plug-in option for IBM Systems Director and is available separately or as part of Systems Director Standard and Enterprise Editions. This solution offers integration of server, storage, and network management for virtualization environments across multiple platforms. It also leverages the functionality of Systems Director to provide centralized management. Key functions include discovery, monitoring, configuration, topology visualiza-tion, management and troubleshooting, all accessed from a single integrated interface.

Based on open industry standards, Systems Director Network Control provides investment protection and reduced complexity, by integrating multiple platforms, operating systems and vendor applications. It is capable of managing both physical and virtualized network assets. Network Control brings together multiple capabilities such as converged support for Ethernet network devices into one tool.

With better control and more transparency, it becomes possible to make better use of network assets. This allows for greater utilization of existing devices and overall network simplification. In addition, risk can be managed through increased visibility into the state of the network at any given time.

By making network management part of the larger management capabilities inherent in IBM Systems Director, Network Control allows IT managers to simplify and streamline management tasks, reducing costs and improving productivity and service levels.

Key takeaways• Reducescostandsimplifiesthemanagementofnetwork

devices in heterogeneous environments• Enablesintegratedcontrolofnetworkassetsunder

IBM Systems Director, consolidating all management functions into a single product

• Improvesproductivityandservicelevelsbysimplifyingandstreamlining management tasks

• Increasesassetutilizationthroughmoreefficientmanagement

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IBM Systems Software IBM z/VM

Distribute memory and CPU dynamically for capacity on demand without sacrificing availability and security

Why it mattersVirtualization has been part of the mainframe landscape for many years, leveraging and enhancing the unparalleled reliability, availability, scalability, security and raw performance of the mainframe platform. Mainframe systems are the mainstay of high-performance transaction processing, providing high-level services to banks, governments many other enterprises as well.

The world has changed, and so too have IBM mainframes. Cost pressures, underutilized business and IT assets and increasing operational complexity are forces that call upon the mainframe to take on an extended role. Massive server consoli-dation enables mainframes to support new kinds of applications based on technologies such as Java,TMWeb2.0orLinux.That’swhat the breakthrough IBM z/VM operating system is all about.

What it isIBM z/VM is an operating system for IBM System z® that permits anywhere from tens to thousands of virtual Linux servers to run on single physical mainframe. z/VM hypervisor technology enables these virtual servers to enjoy the highest levels of resource sharing, with an overall system utilization rate that can exceed 95 percent for extended periods of time. These “guest” servers can run alongside other System z operating systems suchasz/OS,® z/VSETM and z/TPF. Alternatively, the System z can be configured as a large-scale, Linux-only server solution, known as the IBM Enterprise Linux Server.

This advanced virtualization software allows Linux-based businesses to take advantage of System z mainframe technology characteristics – such as extremely high performance and secu-rity – and combine them with the benefits of a virtualized environ-

ment.Reliability,availabilityandscalabilityfeatures such as processor error recovery are built in to z/VM and provided automatically. At the same time, support for dynamic reconfiguration allows hardware to be added to or removed from the configuration without disturbing Linux guests. Provisioning and overall management is simple, enabling new Linux servers to be set up for test, development or standby purposes quickly and easily.

ResourcessuchasCPU,memory,storage,I/Oandcrypto- graphy can be shared among Linux guest images. Internal communication between Linux servers is very fast and efficient, and systems management is highly automated. The ability to support thousands of servers also greatly simplifies horizontal scalability, helping to support business flexibility.

Key takeaways• AllowsdynamicdistributionofCPUandmemoryamongvirtual

servers, to deliver capacity when and where it is needed without sacrificing high availability or service levels

• SupportshundredsorthousandsofvirtualLinuxserversinasingle2.83squaremeterfootprint

• Enablesdeploymentofnewserversinminutes–ondemand,expediting response to business demands

• OffersfullvirtualizationofLinuxonIBMSystemzthrough anadvanced64-bithypervisor

• Improvesservicelevelsandreducesriskbyleveraging System z reliability, availability and scalability features

• Reducesinfrastructureandmanagementcoststhrough resource sharing and simplified management

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IBM Systems Software IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager

Configure up to 1,400 blade servers from a single advanced management module

Why it mattersRapiddeploymentandconfigurationofITassetsisakey capability for smarter systems, because it minimizes service disruptions that hurt business responsiveness. When a device has to be moved or replaced, it is essential to get it back online as quickly as possible.

Virtualized, automated data centers can address this funda- mental challenge by eliminating single points of failure; work-loads can be automatically shifted to other servers should a single machine go out of service. But the task of setting up and configuring a replacement remains – and the time spent doing so drives up costs and reduces productivity.

Effective, automated tools can help curtail the complexity of the management and configuration task dramatically. In data center environments with large numbers of physical servers, this can result in significant cost and time savings.

What it isIBMBladeCenterOpenFabricManagersoftwareoffers centralized,automatedI/OconfigurationforIBMBladeCenterenvironments. Ideal for large-scale deployments, it is capable ofsupportingupto100chassis,1,400bladesandmore than 11,000 SAN/LAN addresses, all from a single, simple Web-based management interface that integrates seamlessly with IBM Systems Director.

RatherthanhavingtomanageI/Oandnetworkinterconnectionsseparately,OpenFabricManagerstreamlinestheprocessbyvirtualizing key network parameters such as World Wide Name (WWN) and Media Access Control (MAC) addresses. When a blade is moved or a workload reassigned, LAN and SAN configurations are not affected. They can be preconfigured and thenecessaryI/Oconnectionsaremadethemomentthebladeispluggedin.Shouldabladefail,I/Oisautomaticallyswitchedover to a new blade.

AkeypartofthevalueprovidedbyOpenFabricManagerisitsgrounding in open industry standards, including Ethernet, iSCSI, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE, Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). It also allows the use of high-speed switching modules from IBM as well as other vendors, including Cisco, BNT, Brocade and QLogic. This broad-based supportenablesittoprovidesimplified,streamlinedI/O management even in heterogeneous data center environments.

Key takeaways• Providessimplevirtualizationthatmanagesupto1,400blade

servers from a single advanced management module• Reducesmanagementcostsbyenablingfasterserver

deployment and reduced complexity, with a single user interface that integrates with IBM Systems Director

• Facilitatesscalabilitywithsupportforlargenumbersofbladechassis, servers and SAN/LAN connections

• Improvesservicebyvirtualizingandautomating I/Oconfiguration

• Helpsreduceriskthroughmoreefficientdata center managementFor more information

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IBM Systems Software IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

Improves storage utilization by up to 30 percent while doubling administrator productivity

Why it mattersThe consolidation and optimization of server workloads is a key part of the overall virtualization journey, but it is only part of the picture. To realize all the benefits of a smarter systems approach to IT service delivery, the entire infrastructure needs to be virtual-ized, including storage and network assets.

Storage virtualization complements server virtualization by combining diverse storage assets into common virtual pools of storage. Pooling in this way helps increase utilization, simplify management, improve performance and enable easier sharing of storage among severs. Storage virtualization also masks differences between storage systems and enables common functions across all storage, which helps to promote choice and reduce cost.

What it isIBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) provides storage virtualization through pooled management of diverse storage environments using a simple, common interface that remains consistent regardless of storage type. SVC hides physi-cal changes within the storage infrastructure to help improve availability and streamline the task of provisioning. This makes dynamic management of storage assets far faster and more efficient than manual processes. To further simplify management, SVC integrates with IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center to create a single view of physical and virtual storage resources and their relationships with physical and virtual servers.

SVC is easy to deploy. The software is pre-installed on SVC engines that are deployed in pairs for high availability. These systems attach directly to your storage area network and can take control of existing storage assets with minimal downtime,

so the information already there need not be transferred. Time- to-value, capital expenditures and migration risk are all reduced as a result.

SAN Volume Controller enables you to use your storage in new ways to optimize workloads, improve performance and service levels and respond more quickly to changing business require-ments. It lets you optimize cost by adopting a tiered approach that associates the highest-performing storage devices in your SAN with your highest-value data and most intense work-loads, while using lower-performing assets for less-critical storage needs. Because SVC is external to servers, it provides a common approach to storage virtualization and management regardless of server or server virtualization type, making it an ideal choice for diverse server environments.

Key takeaways• Improvesstorageutilizationbyupto30percentthrough

virtualization of storage assets• Helpsimproveadministratorproductivitybyupto100percent

through automated provisioning and management of diverse storage environments with a single common interface

• Reducescostbycreatingpoolsofeasilymanaged,virtualizedstoragethatcanincreasestorageutilizationbyasmuchas30percent while also improving service levels

• Complementsservervirtualizationbyenablingeasysharing of storage among servers to support application mobility, allowing businesses to deploy IT services more quickly and efficiently

• Improvesavailabilitybyvirtuallyeliminatingstorage- related causes of downtime, such as migration from old to new storage

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2 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Storage Optimizer: An Introduction and Exploration, IBM white paper, April 2008. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21389271&aid=1

3 Look What's Talking On a Smarter Planet, IBM Web page. http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/communication_technology/visions/

4 Value Proposition for IBM Systems Director: Challenges of Operational Management for Enterprise Server Installations

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